Karen Lim Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Bruno, California, United States

San Bruno, California, United States

San Bruno, California

San Bruno, California, United States

• Key asset in managing the Personal Care assortment of over 20k skus across 3k brands such as L’oreal, Phillips, Oral B and Colgate. Demonstrate expertise in Merchandising and models compliance with company standards.
• Manage the end to end process of item set up and work with new and existing suppliers for new products to be set up on Walmart.com.
• Review the weekly sales data, top selling items and run the reporting to assist the buyers with analyzing the metrics for all Personal Care categories across all four channels of sales and marketplace.
• Work with suppliers on SEO optimization and troubleshooting issues for suppliers, customer service, website discrepancies and general item maintenance requests.
• Experienced in Walmart systems to execute all daily tasks of publishing, content optimization and status of items in setup.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Item setup, Compliance, Imagery, Inventory Management, etc.) to implement and solve variances.

San Francisco, CA

• Ensure the accuracy of purchase and assembly orders in Oracle Purchasing systems while communicating with multiple vendors on a daily basis to facilitate component and finished goods deadlines are met on-time..
• Serve as single point of contact for business updates and issue resolution for the Purchasing and Production team.
• Assist production scheduling and purchasing for multiple categories varying in size and complexity.
• Manage multiple programs and projects simultaneously; including balancing new product launches and replenishment demand.
• Own production updates and actively participate in weekly status meetings with external and cross functional teams

Brisbane, CA

• Negotiated prices and confidential technical information submitted by suppliers while maintaining strong vendor relationships; in addition to developing reliable alternative sources of supply to meet company.
• Managed corporate credit card for purchasing (operations) department and examined any charges which are non-compliance.
• Served as team member to set up, maintain Lawson item code activities for purchasing department (operations commodities).
• Resolved issues on all purchased goods and services in timely manner.
• Reconciled bi-weekly and monthly invoice batches for management approval.
• Produced and analyzed weekly Lawson Open Purchase Order Report for cross function partners.

Brisbane, CA

• Managed and executed take offs for all new store openings, closures, relocations, conversions and remodels for bebe and Outlet stores brands (200 + stores across U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands). Reviewed.
• Coordinated timely and accurate delivery of supplies with multiple vendors for all types of store takeoffs (new store, relocation, remodel, etc).
• Assisted with bebe and Outlet window props time management, execution of purchase orders and on time delivery.
• Managed bebe and Outlet stores promotional signage collateral (posters, window clings, in store signage, etc).
• Issued Lawson purchase orders through required approval process for corporate and store requests.
• Researched all purchasing help tickets from stores and provided comprehensive response detailing required actions and timelines to store support for resolution.

Brisbane, CA

• Managed stores bi-monthly supply orders and special requests for business critical items. Ran logistics shipment reports for various projects rolled out for bebe and Outlet brands. Reconciled receipts and invoices for.
• Created user-friendly guidelines for corporate and field to streamline the operational supplies ordering process.
• Maintained effective working relationships with members of cross-functional teams (accounting, construction, facilities, store communications and store operations) to complete various projects